Thank You Mother Mudge. Taught with Mercy!!!!
Barbara Duffield Covington was born Sept. 27, 1930, in her parent’s cottage on Cypress Avenue in Laguna Beach, Calif. She was raised in South Pasadena and was a two-time Rose Parade princess on the South Pasadena float. She earned a bachelor of arts at Occidental College and married her high school sweetheart, John Mudge. They moved to Laguna in 1963 to raise their three children. She was a dedicated, revered, beloved, and award-winning teacher in the
Laguna Beach Unified School District (at the now closed Aliso Elementary and Thurston Middle School) until she retired from teaching in 1980. ((I was class of 1978. She told my mom that God had something special in store for me. My mom said that's why she adopted me. A voice told her tell my biological mother not to abort me but to keep me because of a dream she had. My birth mother listened to my adopted mother and low and behold, I made it on planet earth. My adopted mom let her stay and have the baby, which was me She stayed and gave me away))
Heeding a longtime call to the priesthood, she entered seminary at Bloy House, the Episcopal Theological School at Claremont, and received a masters of divinity. She spent a year at Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, after which she was ordained to the priesthood in 1983 by Bishop George W. Barrett in the Diocese of Los Angeles. She was the first woman in Orange County to be ordained in the Episcopal Church, blazing a path for other women to follow. She was called to be vicar at St. Francis in Simi Valley (1984-1995), chaired the Simi Valley Interfaith Coalition for the Homeless and Needy, and was president of the Southern California Ecumenical Council from 1994 to 1995. She was named an honorary canon of the Cathedral Center of St. Paul (Los Angeles) in 1993.
I stuttered so bad at this age too and she let me skip the oral part and write it instead. Thank you so much for teaching me with Mercy Mrs Mudge the teacher. The best heart a kid could use when he's 12. The other handicap I had was ADD. I couldn't sit still for long periods of time. She gave me two extra recesses and that calmed me down. The fields were right next to her window and she helped so much.
Only teacher who got me and I thank her all the time and can;t wait to talk with her in the new life when I see her again. She became a Franciscan Priest after dealing with me in 6th grade....lol!!! RIP Mother Mudge!!!
